Re: dhclient sucks

On Tuesday 26 July 2005 05:03 am, Mateusz Jędrasik wrote:
> Dnia wtorek 26 lipca 2005 02:29, Mike Jakubik napisał:
> > xl0: link state changed to UP
> > DHCPREQUEST on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> > DHCPREQUEST on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> > DHCPACK from x.x.x.1
> > bound to x.x.x.195 -- renewal in 43200 seconds.
> > xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
> >         inet x.x.x.195 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast x.x.x.255
> >         ether 00:01:03:d4:4c:07
> >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> >         status: active
> > Creating and/or trimming log files:.
> > Starting syslogd.
> > Additional routing options: IP gateway=YES.
> > Starting devd.
> > dhclient xl0: already running?
> > Mounting NFS file systems:.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Why is dhclient being run again? Can someone tell me why this
> > openbsd version was brought in anyways? The old one worked just
> > fine, this seems like yet another reinvention of a wheel, and a
> > broken one at that.
>
> I have a very similar issue on 6.0-BETA, it starts once, then again
> during the boot process similarly at the same place You mentioned,
> with ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" in rc.conf.
>
> Eh. ;-)
>
> Btw, is it possible to have two interfaces? I have w wi0 and fxp0
> card, the wi0 being dynamically switchable on or off with a switch on
> the laptop's side. I would ideally like both of them to do DHCP,
> however, first trying the currently working/available interface -
> that is, fxp0 - then, if the fxp0 link goes down, and nothing is up,
> cancelling the DHCP request, later, when the wi0 gets switched ON,
> FreeBSD automatically picking up DHCP from the associated wireless
> network - is that possible, without manually needing to start DHCP
> every time?

Oh, how I wish dhclient could handle two interfaces!  The old one 
allowed two interfaces, but was rather stupid about it.  There was no 
way to specify which interface had priority, so the last one usually 
won with its default routes.

My gateway box at home has two ethernet interfaces that need dhcp.  It 
seems I'm going to have to hack dhclient-script or something to get it 
to do something sensible.  It shouldn't be that painful.

Linux (gentoo in this case) has dhcpcd, which take switches to allow you 
to tell it to not mess with resolv.conf or the default route.  No 
hacking or pain required.  Unlike ours dhclient.

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